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İlker Gökhan Şen

Dr. Ilker Gokhan Sen is an affiliated researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.
POSTS BY İlker Gökhan Şen
28 January 2021

The Final Death Blow to the Turkish Constitutional Court

On 22 January 2021, Turkish President Erdoğan appointed Mr. İrfan Fidan to the Turkish Constitutional Court. Besides his alleged close ties to Erdoğan, Fidan was the prosecutor of many high-profile criminal cases that have been at the heart of the current backlash against democracy and human rights violations in Turkey - many of which the Constitutional Court overturned. Fidan would be the final blow to shift the balance to fully serve Erdoğan’s interests. Continue reading >>
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28 September 2017

On Legal Aspects of the Independence Referendum of Iraqi Kurdistan

In the referendum held on 25 September 2017, the voters of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) went to the polls to decide whether they wanted an independent state. In this independence referendum, the voters were asked the following question: “Do you want the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and Kurdistani territories that are outside KRI to become an independent state?” With a turnout around 72 %, more than 90% of the voters voted for independence. This note aims to provide a brief analysis on the legal nature of this referendum. For this purpose, I will first define the concept of the independence referendum in general and locate the Kurdish referendum within this concept. Then I will analyze the decision of the KRG to hold the independence referendum from both aspects of constitutional and international laws.  Continue reading >>
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